Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2010 - Revised: July 2, 2009
This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model … role for all crimes, especially for petty crimes. This suggests that, for juvenile crime, an effective policy should not … only be measured by the possible crime reduction it implies but also by the group interactions it engenders. -- Social …